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[Forums] Necrothreads... it becomes a problem...
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Post by
Wildhorn
Anybody else noticed the massive amount of necrothreads lately? Most of them are made by posters with under 5 posts.
Could you add a forum feature that would lock threads after a certain time the last post have been posted? Like a week or at least a month.
Post by
MasterOfDisguise
I see your point, but, in my opinion, this feature might not work because some threads under certain circumstances are okay to necro but others aren't. In other words, this feature would be
highly
situational.
I'm going to leave the rest to Malgayne, since this is his territory, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents.
Post by
Queggy
I see your point, but, in my opinion, this feature might not work because some threads under certain circumstances are okay to necro but others aren't. In other words, this feature would be
highly
situational.
I agree. Some one might make an important thread, and then have to go somewhere for a few weeks where they can't log on to Wowhead or something, then when they get back they are unable to reply to their own thread. And that's just one example out of many.
Post by
Zhivago
It's just noobs that don't understand how forums work or don't understand a topic that is know well understood by the WoW/Wowhead community. It is probably not worth doing as these issues tend to be cyclic in nature.
Post by
pelf
Yeah, if it's a bad necro, report it. If it's an okay necro, don't. fin.
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Post by
Malgayne
I still find it amusing the way that people complain about users not using the search function, then when they
do
use the search function and inadvertently necro an old thread, people complain about it again.
Yeah, if it's a bad necro, report it. If it's an okay necro, don't. fin.
This. Sometimes it IS okay to necro an old thread, here on the Site Feedback forums being a good example. Unfortunately this is usually a judgement call.
If it's becoming a problem on other forums just report them as usual.
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Post by
Queggy
But good ones too, Procul . . .
:(
Post by
Gryphon
Why exactly is it bad to post to old threads?
Mainly because people who respond after the necros post are responding the the OP who has long since abandoned the discussion. The necro may be aware they are responding to an old topic, but subsequent posters are not.
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